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Trump’s Threat to the First Amendment

November 20, 2024 Buck Banks

“To be as clear as I can be, the second Trump administration with Elon Musk embedded within it represents the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience.”

— Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, in an interview with Status.

Of Questionable Veracity

October 23, 2017 Buck Banks

Although his prevarications may be serial,
His majestic pronouncements are empyreal.
And so what if he spouts stinking lies,
He’s not just one of the guys,
And you simply can’t question a four-star Marine general!

Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment

October 12, 2017 Buck Banks

“It is frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, in an Oval Office appearance with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A Burning Question

September 9, 2010May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

Is it right to burn the Quran
Just because the First Amendment says you can?
And if in response Muslim fanatics
Pull some mean terrorist antics,
Should you consult your Bible for an exit plan?

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Trump’s Threat to the First Amendment

“To be as clear as I can be, the second Trump administration with Elon Musk embedded within it represents the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience.”

— Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, in an interview with Status.

Of Questionable Veracity

Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment

“It is frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, in an Oval Office appearance with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A Burning Question

Numerati

53%

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

$1.6 billion

President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.

58%

$3.3 trillion

93%